ISTE 2012 June 25, 2012

Session 1: 8:30-9:30 am Room 25B
Title: iPads Everywhere: Managing iPads in the Education Enterprise Environment
Description: "Learn to manage all those iPads in your district, schools, or classroom! From deployment of apps and management to security and policies, eliminate the headaches!"
Presenter: William Morrison, Director of Technology, Rapides Parish School System

NOTES:
Our Session

• not technical session
• managing all those ipads
• things to consider
• things that can be challenge
• ideas for further research

In district about 600 ipads in the first year for admin. students, a few classrooms 1-1, a few school based carts, 52 schools in district.

Topics: security, management/apps, networking, lost/stolen devices, content filtering, assets management, bandwidth, configuration and policies

district allows student to bring their own, all district owned devices are manged, if you have your own, its on the guess network They can not access the server. Only district owned can get on to server. If personal, it has to be managed by the district. Important to have a written policy for faculty BYOD

how to manage mobile Devices:
Non-enterprise

• apple sync cart
• sync with single iTunes account
• both have disadvantages
• volume purchase from apple

Enterprise

• apple configuration
• mobile device management
  • this system has a lot of controls that school and control, like filtering, VPN, restrictions, iCloud, YouTube, Safari, etc.
  • allows to querying of devices ipad, iphone, ipod, sees any devices on the network
  • manages serial number, capacities, warranty
  • can mange volume purchase codes from iTunes
• These are good for large ipad groups

App & Data Management

• Deploy in house apps directly
• Send suggested apps for user to op-in
• Manage apple volume purchase program codes and send them based on criteria or to certain groups
• apps can be removed after teacher leaves the school

Lost or stolen Devices

• Issue remote lock
• send message to device to lock
• Remove configuration profiles
• Reset lost/forgotten passcodes
• locate device on map have to set up locate my device
• Remote wipe
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Other management

• assign devices to groups for management
• monitor network access by IP
• smart reports: this allows you to query out if ipads are being used for a certain amount of time, then creates a report. Like query out ipads not being used in two weeks. Then reports will be made of those ipads.
• manage system can track if something is taken off the ipad profile, like an app. The management system will notify.
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Security Considerations

• encourage to never to keep open passcodes - use an app like Keypass or others to store passwords
• Enable safari security
• limit locations services cause hackers use that to locate devices

Bandwidth Issues

• Restrict bandwidth on guest networks: personal owned devices by faculty or students unless manged by system, really strict system on guest networks
• BYOD and mobiles have not had a huge impact

Recommendations

• Set up apple volume purchase
• for few ipads that don't go home, itunes management

Resources
Apple
Mobile Device Management
apple Configuration
Absolute Software
Meraki
JAMF Casper Suite


Reflection
Thought this sessions was a little over my head. Talked more about infrastructure and management tools for a whole system. Would have been better for someone in IT like Ellen and Dani.

Session 2: 11:00 - 12:00 Room 9
Title: Making Connections with Blogging: Authentic Learning for Today's Classroom
Description: "Students beg us for time to write. Learn how blogging makes students globally aware while motivating them to read, write, connect, and learn!"
Presenter: Lisa Parisi and Brian Crosby
Book: Making Connections with Blogging, ISTE book

• Everyone benefits to using blogs, everything we do in the classroom.
• It's about making connections from around the world, not just in the classroom
• Common Core Standards and Blogging:
  • Blogging makes connections that common core ask the students to do, by communicating with a wide audience. not just on the board
  • Common core is about reading and writing and communicating to a wide audience
• Internet Safety and Etiquette
  • most important piece, right off the bat address this issues
  • Most teachers forget to address this about safety
  • No matter where the students are they are going to turn loose without any teaching of safety and etiquette if not taught in school by teacher or school
  • use other blogs comments as examples for etiquette, not way put down or negative. Teacher facilitates and shows students them. Then have students practice writing a few sentences.
  • 7 Random Facts (lesson/activity) based on the "Important Book" - blog assignment to teacher internet safety; kids make up 7 facts of themselves, then share, then find others who have similar facts about them
• Managing Time & Equipment
  • Lisa has all students that have computers, Brian does not, but 1 to 1 in school. He does all his blogging in class.
  • Have students do writing on paper, then publish on computer. do all the editing on paper.
  • Stations with computers, rotate in centers to blog
  • Lisa's blogging is for homework. First few times she does wit her students in school. Then she checks their comments/posts in class. This is to make sure they are getting feedback on how to write positive and appropriate comments/posts. When students are ready, they can do for homework.
  • Kids are able to get their own blogs with parents permission and guidance. This helps to involve the parents and for monitoring. This also allows the parents to see what the students are doing in school. She likes them to have their own so that when they leave her class and move on, they still have their published work and can continue to blog on their own.
  • It's up to you and what resources are available for your students.
• Great Examples
  • blogging is more than just writing
  • Students can also put other media just as video. Brian has each student Flickr accounts and embed video. They students post on blog and write to explain what is happening in the video.
  • Example: another school saw their experiments and wanted to try his class experiments. So they skyped and the students showed that school from New Zealand how to do it.
  • Blogging is not extra. It's should be integrated and part of the learning. Great way for students to demonstrate knowledge. Students can change it up as they learn more. Differentiated learning by showcasing in different ways, writing, videos, audio, glogster, picture collage, podcast, etc.
  • Math blog: math problem on post and students have to figure it out on the blog with responses
  • students can evaluate and help through the process: child puts a problem, then responses shows the steps and if it is wrong, then child owner will response and tell where child made mistake and guidance to next step
  • Teacher writes assignments on his blog. Then students do their homework in their own blog..
  • Book reviews: students write about the book on the blog, writer's club
  • Rotate Blog: one class blogs for a week and other classes comment that week. Then rotate each week.
  • Beginning of the Year Blog: Lisa has students write their expectations they think for the year
    • anything that students have written can be put up on the blog
    • students get excited when they have an audience and get comments
    • blogs posts can be edited and make corrections
    • have students reread their old posts and edit themselves realizing that they may have made mistakes
    • Hopes and Dreams Blog - students write what their hopes and dreams are for the year, then do again in January, then at the end of year. Talk about why you met or why you didn't? Have you changed your goals?
    • science blogs to write out their procedures and steps
    • Cut and paste the old and then edit in a new one to see the changes. leave a link back to the old one. Got back to an old post to see original and the changes.
  • ESL students write in native language and then slowly start to write in English. They can see the improvement and progress. Easy for the students to see their own progress.
  • Blog About:
    • field trips: pictures from their Flickr accounts
    • blogs help to involve in parent learning about their kids learning. Students want to share with their parents when they make their own blogs. Students get excited about publishing and sharing with family.
    • Special Projects
    • Blogs about bad testing experience (poop on shoes from dog and had a testing, smelly)
    • Talk about daily experiences
    • Place where you'd like to visit
• Connecting and Commenting
  • Some worry and lock down settings for comments. However that limits the global audience.
  • If you do the safety in the beginning of the year, there shouldn't be too much issues
  • Sometimes authors and other organizations can connect with our students.
  • Lock it down you preventing from other from coming in, connecting with your students,
• IDEAS: connect with Lisa for students blogs for commenting on their students and our student blogs
  • She sends out a tweet about commenting on a child's post so that the child will get comments and motivation for more writing and posting.
  • Example: students loved to write fantasy and used his blog to share his chapter book
  • Place you'd like to visit and why. (most started with Disneyland and other places like that) except one talked about going to China. Then student got a comment from a teacher in China. Then classmates saw that and wanted to write more about where they wanted to go
  • Routine - 3 days in the morning they are asked to check their blogs for comments.
  • Lisa will delete when some of the comments are too negative (like you spelled everything wrong)
  • All comments are moderated by teacher.
  • Teacher help the students to write positive comments instead of negative
  • Teacher help inclusion students, those that have a hard time writing. she works with them one on one to get more writing on their blog. She doens't want others to figure out who is a low child in the class.
  • Comments that the students make outside of the school are not modified or teacher can't see the etiquette. That is why they work with the students to write etiquette. Have to trust that they are writing appropriate.
  • Some teachers can trace where the negative comments.
• Blog Platform Choices
  • Edublog / Kidblog / Class Blogmesiter - teacher friendly
  • Wordpress / blogger - not teacher friendly

Session 3: 12:45 - 1:45 Ballroom 20CD
Title: iLearn: Creativity Meets the iPad2
Description: Learn how you can use the iPad2 across the curriculum for productivity, creativity, and multimedia production as well as curriculum-area integration.
Presenter: Camilla Gagliolo, ISTE Board Member, Arlington Public Schools

• Creativity: engage, collaborate, create, communicate, publish, celebrate
• Students as Content Producers: Personalize learning, differentiated expressions of learning, creative applications
• Creativity Apps:
  • camera (got rid of digital cameras since iPad has video and camera)
    • built in camera for reading practice and communication, reflection, just recording what they are doing, their thinking, putting it up on a blog for others to help them guide them, share with parents,
    • There are many apps for creativity, many use the build in camera
      • claymation
      • comic strips / storytelling
      • garage band: create authentic music by the students
      • multi-media story books
      • iMovie
      • Drawing Pad
• Student Creativity and Productivity
  • eBooks
  • Author Party - where students share with parents their ebooks that they have made
  • Social stories
  • students write poetry and other writings and even embed their pictures
  • science: embed a science research project, embedding pictures and videos of their researched project
• Book Creator for iPad
  • students publishing in a creative, looks like it can also have audio as well as text and pictures
• Pages
• iThoughts: mapping ideas
• Inspiration Maps: from Inspiration, ideas from brainstorming to outline to add text and writing
• Corkulous: cork board for brainstorming
• ABC Books: students write about one page from the alphabet
• Popplet

• Drawing Apps
  • Drawing Pad
  • Adobe Ideas
  • Doodle Buddy
• Photography: visual literacy
  • Adobe Photoshop Express
  • Photogene
  • iPhoto

• Using Multimedai to Communicate Learning
  • iMovie: express learning with movies
    • sample: history review
    • students can make a movie about themselves or what they care about or express themselves (video upload coming soon)
  • iTunes: Apple Distinguished Educator Collection
  • Garage Band: music and podcast:
    • global connection - created 30 second of musical instrument. Then sent to another school who added another instrument.
    • 1st grade classroom that is using garage band to make podcasts (video upload coming soon)
  • iWorks
  • Keynote: use as a portfolio or presentation, whole range of elements that you add into the keynote
• Comics
  • Strip Designer: many lay out, put pictures and drawing together
  • Comic Tough: speech bubbles with students art or pictures
  • Comic Life: picture and text and design, used for reporting and retelling field trips or experiences that maybe they have taken pictures
    • Used with keynote
• Telling Stories
  • Toontastic: students are guided through a story arc, create their own story and even drawing or used templates and then it is an animation story
  • iStop Motion: makes claymation
  • Sockpuppets
  • Amination-ish (coming this summer) for the iPad
• Rethinking Publishing and Books
  • These tools allows students to create in their own way, own expressions, own voices, etc.
  • Gives them ownership.
  • There are many ways (audio, visual, tactile like claymation)

Session 4: 2:30 - 3:30 Room 8
Title: Apps, Real Classroom: iPads in the Mixed-Ability Classroom - Tradition Meets Technology
Description: Three teachers will share their experiences regarding iPad deployment and daily use of iPads in the classroom highlighting specific apps and techniques.
Presenter: Amanda Allen, St. Genevieve Elementary School

Standing room only in this session. Session is using TodaysMeet.com for back channeling. Maybe we can use this in our faculty meetings. Room for back channeling will be open for one week after conference

Tradition Meets Technology
@msallen1a Amanda Allen, Primary Grades
@fjvega25 F.Javier Vega, Middle School Science
@mister_lopez David Lopez, Tech Director, English

Our Format

• Show me
• Convince me
• Empower me

"We don't teach technology, we teacher learning."
Don't throw out your existing lesson and workflows.
Use technology as a tool to reach your students.
If the App doesn't fit, don't use it.

iPad P.D. (presenters did P.D. for about a year and half)

• iPad training for teachers
• 50 workshops for teachers, meet hundreds of teachers
• they did demonstration lessons with the students and the teachers were watching them using the iPads
• Resource: wordle.net to address concerns that teachers had. The biggest was students, appls usage
• Evalution: www.tinyurl.com/SITEIPADS
• iPad Resources: www.tinyurl.com/ipadsges

Deployment Models

• 1. 1 to 1 Deployment: each student and teacher has iPad
• 2. Class / Shared Set: iPads in cart and shared
• 3. Teacher Only: VGA and only teacher

Cool idea have student take picture of their face and the use that for class portrait

SHOW ME - Elementary (Amanda)
Science
Obj: Students learn about the bones in their body.

1. video using brain pop
2. iPad app: Discovery Your Body app: able to maniupulate bones digitally, dragging bones into their place
3. worksheet (tradition): kids cut out bones and place back together, assemble body paper

Writing: Informational (?)

• Popplet: web, mind mapping tool,
• Students were studying about bats
• she was using bats in center, then branched out with characteristics of bat
• traditionally would just write on the board, but then used on the iPad
• She would type it out and project on the board
• then the students would write using the Popplet

Writing: Descriptive Writing

• App: Beautiful Plant HD - pictures of animals and people from around the world
• She picks a picture and then have the students describe the picture
• She will ask them questions: like what do you think the animal is doing? why is that person wearing those clothes, etc.

tradition meets Technology

• She has centers
  • Silent Reading Activity (tradition)
  • iPad Station

Math:

• Obj. Students practice math facts at ZPD.
• Learning with iPad Stations:
  • Station 1: Traditional Method, pencil and paper, 10 minutes
  • Station 2: New Method, 10 minutes
  • Station 3: One the rug with teacher, 10 minutes
  • Total time: 30 minute block with three methods for solid practice
  • She was able to get 100 math facts in 3 mins with her students
  • When on iPad, they can choose, but as long as it is the skill she wants, she doesn't choose the level. She lets her students pick the app and level. As long as the app is the skill she asks them to do
  • APPS:
    • math bingo
    • Kid's Math
    • My First Clock
    • Pizza 1

Expanding Horizons: story about observing moon and couldn't see. Student came back to school and showed her an app that could show the planets and the moon. She is also learning from her students.

Past and Present: 3rd graders teaching 1st graders about the earth's core. They were asked what is core. 3rd graders pulled out the dictionary. Her students took out their iPad.

Middle School Science Grades 6-8, no compute lab in his school

• Standards based-lesson, NOT textbook
• hands-on learning
• iPads, apps websites, videos used to enhance and supplement my teaching

iPad in Science: Space Exploration Unit

• used iPads to access JPL website, Field trip
• lead to inquiry project
• Lang Which planet would you visit?
• Used the NASA app and Solar System HD apps
• Students would then create a Rover Simulation, then do an obstacle course toe test their rovers

Life Science:

• Rat Dissection: app, has an assessment, also has a cow eye dissection
• Our school has no science lab
• cost of app. vs. specimen cost
• each student has own "specimen"

Life Science: Human Body

• DK Human Body
• used the app to help them to build a model of the body and brain. They had to use clay to make a 3D and then a drawing
• Animation Creator HD: they used this app to explain their learning with drawing and animation

Science: Water Rockets

• Newton's Law of Motion
• Hands on Learning
• App: accelerations

Flipped Classroom

• one student has to leave during the project
• group used facetime to be a part of the project with her classmates in school while she was on trip

Middle School Language Art
Tradition Meets

• eBooks
• Textbooks should become electronic, but still believes in traditional books. Some of his students still like holding the books, folding the pages or highlighting in it.
• App: iBooks - FREE!
• he created his own eBook. He made a Poetry book, made a cover and had audio reading the poetry.
• App: GoodReader: file manager/ folders; PDF viewer and organizer; active reading,notation, highlight and underline text,
• APP: Zite: make your own magazine, query out content you want to read from articles
• APP: Inforgraphics:
• APP: Cominc Life for iPads:
• APP: Moxier Collage app: used to make a yearbook page

Digital WorkFlow

• He has textbooks and pdf format on the iPads
• Used Popplet to create a map of the article meaning.
• APP: Emodo, students would turn in their assignment of the poetry/article, there are also tests to take

Convince Me
School Goal:

• Thinking: how to be better as a teacher and reach all learners of mixed abilities? They wanted to engage students, give students ownership over learning.

Computer Lab vs. Modvile Devices

• mobile device is integrated throughout day
• mobile device is portable and personal
• labs are isolated and irregular
• access and scheduling

Why iPad?

• cost per device compare to laptop
• maintenance/upgrades
• "future-prof" tech
• Self-initiated learning: kids coming back to teacher with apps they like and learn from.

Zero Student Training

• didn't train students
• touch interface appeals to all learners
• few physical keyboard used at our school, very few kids opted to use keyboards, they can already type on the iPad, mental shift for adults who are use to keyboards

Another Reason for iPad: 225,000 apps!!!!

Results? after using iPad, are students learning more, less or in different ways?
Before and after using iPads, have data
Test Results
See pictures

Empower Me

• Finding APPs: go to the app store searching for apps,
• Finding apps websites: APPitic (broken down - SPED,Themes)
• Finding apps websites: AppShopper: tells you when some are on sale
• Finding apps websites: teacherswithapps: grouped by developer
• Type of apps: toolbox (general) vs. content specific apps (very specific for grade and content)
• iTunes - "Tell a Friend" - professional development by using the "tell a friend" to share with your coworkers, link you send to your friends
• What is Flash?: iPad didn't have flash at first. Flash was designed for desktops, and keyboards, not for touch. Flash are not used for touch friendly, Flash is energy consuming, will not be able to use flash
• Distractions: teacher are the content filters, they decided to trust the students to go to appropriate apps, teachers need to monitor.
• App Store Volume Purchase Program - discounted when buying more than 20, good for bulk

Session 4: 4:15 - 5:15 pm
Title: 101 Free Tech Tools for Teachers
Presenters: Kimberly Warrner, Lisa Greathouse, Grace Dunlap
From: Simple K12: teacher professional development online, pd in your pajamas: :)
Booth: 5601
Workbook: 101 Free Tech Tools workbook, digital copy available
Resources: will be available after session

"It's not the tool...It's the technique!"

• It's about how you use the tool with your students in you class. Technology will never replace great teaching. What not just what it is, but how you use it.
• To enhance the learning of our students by incorporating technology

TOOLS

• Kiddios - video for students, educators and parents review the videos, query by age levels, don't need account. It does have some videos from YouTube. if you have an account and the video is from YouTube it will not have any ads from YouTube or search from others vidoe content. Ages 1 to 8
• Lino - online sticky note, drag and drop post-its, change color of note and text, good for collaboration, can add videos and photos or attach docs, add to your blog
• Educreations.com, free iPad app
• TitanPad.com - back channeling, another conversation while in a conversation, can watch in real-time and go back in the conversation, FREE, private or public
• ScreenCast-o-Matic - recording your screen,
• Flubaroo - grading made easy, quick and easy assessments using Google forms,
• TubeChop - allow to use YouTube videos safely, only want to see 1 minute of a video, you can chop the video to display just that section, you put in the time you want to watch, can embed
• ViewPure - YouTube video, find the link, paste into this site and only see the video without other stuff
• WonderList - there is an app for iPad, computer too, allows you to create different list and within each list can make to do task, star for priority, assign due dates and reminders, move order for priority, collaboration with others and update the list, sync to multiple devices, personalize with picking backgrounds
• GoogleArt Project - take museums /galleries and making them interactive virtual experiences on the web, free google account, you can make custom gallery for your teaching or class, has 360 views of some places,
• Comic Master - more for older students, build a comic book online, free, don't need an account, when you log in you can save your work, comicmaster.org.uk , drag and drop, use for writing by making a comic then write a story or write and story and then make a comic
• Tiki-Toki - multimedia timeline tool, start and end date that you decide and then put in events into the timeline, if you want to expand and there is more, for each event that you add you can have audio, text, pictures, video, display information in a timeline format, students use this for online portfolios
• InstaGrok - gives you mind maps for information, just type in topic and then a map will have mind map on that topic, good for your younger and older, there is slider that can go for young and then slide up for older kids, free account, you can add your own to the insta-grok
• iCivics - like a cartoon like, very thorough, start by going to teacher area to learn more. you can select by state, it focuses on US government, related to state standards, it has lesson plans and interactive games, free, graphics are great and fun, mapped to state standards which is good,
• ClassDojo - classroom management, positive behavior in the classroom, free, share with parents through the report card features, teachers can add comments on the awarded points, customize positive and negative points,
• Pen.io - publish material online, publish a beautiful page in seconds, not made for multiple collaboration, easy to edit, user friendlly, change text, background, save and view, there is a custom link that is created and that is what you send. Example: iste2012.pen.io and Password iste2013. digital assignments, or resumes
• Google Drive - google docs is the old and now it is known as Google Drive, replacement for DropBox, Google Drive has 5G, download to home/work/school, storage space
• Qwiki - interactive stories in minutes, on the bottom there is a qwiki reference, show case information for research projects, reports, text pops up with the pictures and related photos as it goes through information, you can jump through timelines or related information by clicking on the picture, audio
• Printfriendly - turn a website into a nice pdf and email resource, copy the link and put into printfriendly, then customize the text, delete information or images that you don't need, change the text, email it out or print into a pdf
• SimpleK12.com - professional development online, 160,000 members from around the world, connect with other teachers, webinars 500 a year, online conference, they find the experts for topics and have them do a sessions, free resource,
• Collaborize Classroom - looks like blackboard, courses for students and have discussions, customize the page, have a welcome message, more for discussion in the classroom with posts
• SpellingCity.com - make a custom list and make activities, they have generic, free

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